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Custom sneakers, vintage dishware, a limited-edition car—each is an example of a product owners may regard as special and irreplaceable, fostering strong feelings of attachment. Read Full Article Here
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Frontline managers’ pay does not reflect their personal contribution to a firm’s profits. They capture only 0.5% of the value created, as opposed to 25–60% for more visible occupations such as CEOs, salespeople and realtors, according to a recent study by Arnaldo Camuffo from the Bocconi Department of Management and Technology and Federica De Stefano of HEC Paris and Matthew Bidwell from Wharton. Read Full Article Here
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Transitions are never easy. Sometimes they are underway, and we are unaware of them. When New York City transitioned away from a manufacturing to a service economy, we lost a million people and 500,000 manufacturing jobs. Landlords lost their buildings to the city because they couldn’t or wouldn’t pay property tax, and some burned down their buildings to collect insurance. People predicted the end of New York City. Read Full Article Here
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Researchers have pioneered the use of a tool that can track the loss of groundwater in California’s Central Valley by measuring how much the Earth is sinking. Read Full Article Here
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Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe create high-quality crystals that offer the perfect substrate on which to tailor-make two-dimensional materials with amazing electronic properties. They tell New Scientist how they grow their world-renowned crystals Read Full Article Here
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Some “brutal” weather was bearing down on California on Tuesday, with forecasters warning torrential rain and widespread flooding this week could prove deadly. Read Full Article Here
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Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, has died. He was 90. Read Full Article Here
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Austerity in the U.K. is here to stay. The Bank of England has warned that the country is facing the longest recession since records began, predicting that the economic slump will extend well into 2024. At the same time, the most recent budget has been called austerity 2.0 by companies, unions, political figures and policy experts. This suggests the era of public spending cuts seen since 2010 has reached the next phase: austerity as the “new normal.
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As the New Year begins, California’s Sierra is closing in on the second-largest snowpack we’ve seen at this time of year in the last two decades, with more snow expected to pummel the mountain range in the coming days. Read Full Article Here
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A study carried out at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) heralds a paradigm change in the field of mechanobiology. The study reveals that cells respond to forces of differing strength using use two distinct mechanisms, one mediated by minute, cup-like invaginations on the cell surface called caveolae and the other by newly discovered large membrane depressions the study authors call dolines. Read Full Article Here
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The ability to transmit and manipulate, with minimal loss, the smallest unit of light—the photon—plays a pivotal role in optical communications as well as designs for quantum computers that would use light rather than electric charges to store and carry information. Read Full Article Here
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Coprolites (fossil feces) from around 30,000 years ago have been used to identify the presence of bearded vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) at the Paleolithic site of Lagar Velho (Portugal). A comparison of the coprolites found in the excavations with the feces of present-day lammergeyers has confirmed the presence of these animals in the past. The research study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, points out the importance of identifying the coprolites when documenting the presence of these birds in the sites and studying the relationship they had with prehistoric human communities.
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In dual-earner couples, working from home may be a better deal for husbands than wives in some ways, according to two related studies of workers in China and South Korea. Read Full Article Here
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Antibiotics are being used less and less in fattening animals. This is the result found by the report, “Treatment Frequency and Antibiotic Consumption Quantities 2018–2021: Trends in Cattle, Pigs, Chickens and Turkeys Kept for Meat Production,” by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). The BfR is tasked with evaluating the data on antibiotic use provided by the German federal states each year as well as with performing a risk assessment of antibiotic resistance.
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ABC transporters constitute a major class of multidrug resistance proteins, e.g., in cancer cells. Membrane lipids have been long known to influence the structure and functional dynamics of these proteins. However, previous structural and biochemical studies on ABCG2 are limited either by their static description or low spatial resolution to provide a microscopic view of the dynamics of the drug binding and lipid interactions. Read Full Article Here
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Crouching low among rocky tidepools nearly completely covered with sharp-shelled mussels, California State Parks interpretive manager Robyn Chase gave out a sharp cry. Read Full Article Here
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From 2004 to 2014, private high schools opened in more than 200 rural villages in one large Indian state. In a new study, researchers have compared student outcomes in these villages with outcomes in several thousand villages with no private schools. Read Full Article Here
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Their service is invaluable. The army of insects and other animals that pollinates the numerous plants of this earth has an essential function. Without these flower visitors, numerous wild plants could reproduce only poorly—or not at all. Ecosystems would thus no longer be able to function in their current form. More than three quarters of the most important crops depend on pollinators in order to be able to produce a high yield and good quality.
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Omnipresent fireworks displays won’t be the only lights in the sky over the next few nights: There will be natural spectacles, too. Read Full Article Here
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Scientists have discovered a way to train healthy immune cells to acquire the skills of some tumor cells—but for a good purpose—to accelerate diabetic wound healing. This remarkably promising finding, recently published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, may open up a brand new avenue for regenerative medicine. Read Full Article Here
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Italians are notoriously—and understandably—protective of their cuisine, as regular arguments about the correct toppings for pizza or the appropriate pasta to use with a Bolognese ragu will attest. Read Full Article Here
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Stem cells from umbilical cords in Skåne are improved with nanotubes. By cross-pollinating nanotechnology with stem cell biology, researchers are creating gentle methods to ensure that more cells perform better. Blood stem cells are altered without showing that they have been modified. Read Full Article Here
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A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter’s moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI’s Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO). Read Full Article Here
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When the state’s wildlife department flung the first handful of lettuce to a starving manatee in the Indian River a year ago, it was an act of desperation driven by a catastrophic die-off and violating an environmental golden rule that animal behavior should not be messed with that way. Read Full Article Here
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Salmonella are food-borne pathogens that infect millions of people each year. To do so, these bacteria depend on a complex network of genes and gene products that allow them to sense environmental conditions. In a new paper, researchers have investigated the role of small RNAs that help Salmonella express their virulence genes. Read Full Article Here
